Honeycomb vs. Beehive — What's the Difference?

A honeycomb is a mass of hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain their larvae and stores of honey and pollen. Beekeepers may remove the entire honeycomb to harvest honey.

A beehive is an enclosed structure in which some honey bee species of the subgenus Apis live and raise their young. Though the word beehive is commonly used to describe the nest of any bee colony, scientific and professional literature distinguishes nest from hive.

A structure of hexagonal, thin-walled cells constructed from beeswax by honeybees to hold honey and larvae.

A hive for bees.

Something resembling this structure in configuration or pattern.

A very busy place.

To fill with holes or compartments; riddle

A woman's hairstyle in which the hair is arranged in a tall, rounded peak on top of the head.

To form in or cover with a pattern like that of a honeycomb.

An enclosed structure in which some species of honey bees (genus Apis) live and raise their young.

A structure of hexagonal cells made by bees primarily of wax, to hold their larvae and for storing the honey to feed the larvae and to feed themselves during winter.

A man-made structure in which bees are kept for their honey.

(by extension) Any structure resembling a honeycomb.

(figuratively) Any place full of activity, or in which people are very busy.

(construction) Voids left in concrete resulting from failure of the mortar to effectively fill the spaces among coarse aggregate particles.

A women's hairstyle, popular in the 1960s, in which long hair is styled into a hive-shaped form on top of the head and usually held in place with lacquer.

(aviation) Manufactured material used to manufacture light, stiff structural components using a sandwich design.

A particular style of hat.

(solar cell) The texture of the surface of a solar cell, intended to increase its surface area and capture more sunlight.

A type of anti-personnel ammunition round containing flechettes, and characterised by the buzzing sound made as they fly through the air.

(geometry) A space-filling packing of polytopes in 3- or higher-dimensional space.

(cellular automata) In Conway's Game of Life, a particular still life configuration with a rounded appearance.

To riddle something with holes, especially in such a pattern.

To fill (a place) with busy activity.

A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

To style ones hair in a hive-shaped or bouffant form.

Any substance, as a easting of iron, a piece of worm-eaten wood, or of triple, etc., perforated with cells like a honeycomb.

A hive for a swarm of bees. Also used figuratively.

A framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees

Any workplace where people are very busy

Carve a honeycomb pattern into;

A structure that provides a natural habitation for bees; as in a hollow tree

Penetrate thoroughly and into every part;

A hairdo resembling a beehive

Make full of cavities, like a honeycomb

A man-made receptacle that houses a swarm of bees